Day 3

Moscow Tour

Day Schedule

➤Guided tour to the State Tretyakov Gallery, the most famous museum of Russian art in the world

➤Guided tour to the Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve

➤Transfer to the train station to board the train to Kazan

Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve

Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve

A short ride from the city centre will take you to Kolomenskoe Museum-Reserve, where you can get an idea of what Medieval Moscow looked like. Here you’ll find the oldest garden in Moscow and a favourite estate of Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, father of Peter the Great. The Church of the Ascension was built in 1532 on the imperial estate of Kolomenskoye to celebrate the birth of the prince who was to become Tsar Ivan IV ('the Terrible'). One of the earliest examples of a traditional wooden tent-roofed church on a stone and brick substructure, it had a great influence on the development of Russian ecclesiastical architecture and is now one of Russia's few UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES.